SAMOAN PLANTS AND THEIR VERNACULAR NAMES. 281 
Asi-lauifi. The Ifi-leaved ** Asi," or Sandal-wood. 
Asitoa, Asi-vai (Eugenia sp.?). Very hard and durable. 
Asivao (Eugenia sp.). Fruit subacid, purple, elongated, edible. 
I have met with it only on Manono. 
Ateate (Composita). This is a very common yellow-flowered spe- 
cies, grows 2—4 feet high, strong smell. Called in America the Stink- 
plant. [Calendula officinalis ?, EprrOR.] 
Atiu (Karivia sp.?). A pretty, small, procumbent creeper, with 
rough, hairy, palmate leaves. Fruit round, yellow, about the size of 
an apricot. 
Atone (Myristica, sp. plur.). There are three kinds :— 
l. A very tall tree, branches not descending. Fruit as large as a 
pigeon’s egg, nearly round. Mace straw-ccloured. 
2. Fruit oblong. Mace red. 
3. Fruit small, roundish. Mace red. 
Both these latter two send down numerous branches, like the “ Aóa " 
(Ficus proliza) ; and of them Wilkes says, “ Of the Wild Nutmeg two 
species were seen, which are small trees, and likely to be passed without 
notice, were it not for the peculiar manner in which branches grow out 
of the trunk, which is in whorls at regular intervals, like the White 
Pine (Pinus Strobus) of our Northern States.” (Wilkes, Narr. U. S. 
Expl. Exped. vol. ii. p. 120.) 
‘Au‘auli (Dyospyros Samoensis, A. Gray). A large tree. Branches 
spreading. Wood hard, used for axe-handles. Foliage dense, dark 
green. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, obsoletely articulated with the 
stem, ovate-lanceolate, entire, coriaceous. Inflorescence axillary; pe- 
duncles 1-3, 1-flowered, with minute bracts. Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Calyx inferior, with 1 or 2 leaf-like caducous bracts at its base and smaller 
ones on its peduncle, 4-lobed, rotate, coriaceous, persistent, its base 
adhering to the torus forming a eup surrounding the ovary, imbricate 
in sstivation. Corolla hypogynous, monopetalous, its base globose, 
its lobes 4, rotate, somewhat coriaceous ; estivation imbricate. Sta- 
mens twice the number of the lobes of the corolla, into whose base 
they are inserted, the 4 more fully developed ones alternate with its 
lobes, the other 4 opposite to them ; filaments distinct, flat, broad ; 
anthers 2, lobed, innate, divergent, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 
superior, seated on a short torus, 8-celled, with a pendulous ovule in 
each; styles 4, connate at the base; stigmas 2-cleft. Fruit round, 
